Anchoring: A New Approach to Handling Indeterminate Location in GIS Export

@incollection{citeulike:1804762, abstract = {We describe a new approach to representing vague or uncertain information concerning spatial location. Locational information about objects in information space is expressed through various anchoring relations which enable us to state exactly what is known regarding the spatial location of an object without forcing us to identify that location with either a precise region in the embedding space or any precise mathematical construct from such regions, such as rough sets or fuzzy sets. We describe the motivation for introducing Anchoring, propose the beginnings of a formal theory of the anchoring relations, and illustrate some of the ideas with examples typical of the real-life use of GIS.}, author = {Galton, Antony and Hood, James}, citeulike-article-id = {1804762}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11556114_1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/dya13qyyqmm31thj}, doi = {10.1007/11556114_1}, journal = {Spatial Information Theory}, keywords = {geospatial, vagueness}, pages = {1--13}, posted-at = {2009-10-30 17:21:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Anchoring: A New Approach to Handling Indeterminate Location in GIS}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11556114_1}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1804762 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1804762 N2 - We describe a new approach to representing vague or uncertain information concerning spatial location. Locational information about objects in information space is expressed through various anchoring relations which enable us to state exactly what is known regarding the spatial location of an object without forcing us to identify that location with either a precise region in the embedding space or any precise mathematical construct from such regions, such as rough sets or fuzzy sets. We describe the motivation for introducing Anchoring, propose the beginnings of a formal theory of the anchoring relations, and illustrate some of the ideas with examples typical of the real-life use of GIS. JF - Spatial Information Theory EP - 13 TI - Anchoring: A New Approach to Handling Indeterminate Location in GIS SP - 1 KW - geospatial KW - vagueness AU - Galton, Antony AU - Hood, James PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11556114_1 ER -